What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives.
And that was with an older system. Specifically, any number of ps/w/top or related commands are hanging the shell. urpmi.update -a also hangs the shell. I am in the middle of a backup and so far have had to abort it twice and restart because of this. These processes are blocking so that I end up with a very high load average -- at present it is over 20. Surprisingly, system response is speedy - it's just that the system thinks each of these processes is one that's waiting in the run queue, which of course, they are. Oh well, reboot time again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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